Mine Digital is to attend the world’s largest annual newspaper exhibition and conference in Chicago. NEXPO 2006 will showcase the publishing industry’s latest products and services and provide a series of seminars and educational workshops during the four-day event. The exhibition will take place on 1-4 April in Chicago, Illinois with over five hundred people in the publishing industry being expected to attend. Attendees of the event will be able to actively participate in educational sessions and liase with experts in the newspaper and publishing field. There are also a large number of companies exhibiting at the event including Apple, Quark and Adobe.

The event is of particular relevance to Mine Digital this year as the company aim to launch their latest product brandPRESS™ publisher. Mine Digital are in the process of developing brandPRESS™ publisher - an online ad production system which will allow advertisers to produce a variety of classified or trade adverts for publications. The system will be dual functional and will also allow in-house publishing teams to create advertising through the brandPRESS™ template system. brandPRESS™ publisher will be created uniquely for the publishing industry to offer incredible improvements for all publications that are committed to maximising advertising opportunities and removing the administrative complications involved with advertising. The system will have a number of innovative features including a Template library, Reporting service and Customer database.

Robert Anderson Technical Director of Mine Digital will be attending the event in Chicago and states; 'I expect NEXPO to be very beneficial for Mine Digital as the US is known to be a flagship country in terms of latest advancements in software technology. Through this event, Mine Digital will have access to the latest information and product innovations in the publishing field. Also in general, NEXPO will provide an excellent opportunity for Mine Digital to develop strategic partnerships with others in the same industry'.

This year NEXPO will provide over thirty cutting-edge educational sessions relevant to the industry ranging from pre-publishing, press and materials, digital media and overall industry challenges. The exhibition also has a number of guest speakers from within the publishing field. The event and conference takes place at McCormick Street in Chicago.

Mine Digital currently has three products within the brandPRESS™ suite which have been introduced to the market throughout 2005-2006; brandPRESS™ an ad production system specifically designed for advertising agencies, brandPRESS™ recruitment an ad production and workflow system for the recruitment industry and brandPRESS™ automotive a marketing production system designed specifically for car manufacturers. Mine Digital has a number of global clients utilising brandPRESS™ technology including Toyota and Thames Water.